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Definition of Baroscopes
1. baroscope [n] - See also: baroscope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baroscopes
Literary usage of Baroscopes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... writes to RB on February 6,1665, as follows : 'Persons of no ordinary capacities
do find your three discourses of thermometers and baroscopes difficult. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"This passage I found by following up the reference in John Beale's letter to the
three papers on 'thermometers and baroscopes.' A close examination of ..."
3. Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of the United States to by Charles MacLean Andrews, Frances Gardiner Davenport (1908)
"In 1668, the Society ordered that baroscopes be sent into " the East and West
... 292), and in 1677 several baroscopes were sent to Barbadoes to test their ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"baroscopes " simply indicate variations in the atmospheric pressure, without
supplying quantitative data. " Barographs " are barometers which automatically ..."
5. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"... or others fitted up upon the same principle, are justly termed baroscopes and
barometers with respect to the air. Now it is observed that water is ..."
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